Pith Number

pith:BVLBKBZU

pith:2021:BVLBKBZUVKW6YOLGXJHMBISWFE

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THOR: An Algorithm for Cadence-Independent Asteroid Discovery

Andrew J. Connolly, Dino Bektesevic, Hayden Smotherman, J. Bryce Kalmbach, Jes Ford, Joachim Moeyens, Mario Juric, R. Lynne Jones, Siegfried Eggl, \v{Z}eljko Ivezi\'c

arxiv:2105.01056 v1 · 2021-05-03 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BVLBKBZUVKW6YOLGXJHMBISWFE}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T03:16:14.601238Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d56150734aaadec3966ba4ec0a2562903bd8b1aa60adce0d2ac472ab638ceff

Aliases

arxiv: 2105.01056 · arxiv_version: 2105.01056v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2105.01056 · pith_short_12: BVLBKBZUVKW6 · pith_short_16: BVLBKBZUVKW6YOLG · pith_short_8: BVLBKBZU

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BVLBKBZUVKW6YOLGXJHMBISWFE \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 0d56150734aaadec3966ba4ec0a2562903bd8b1aa60adce0d2ac472ab638ceff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6e275b8c9203064a548a26bb302bf8c9de36e5ba39039e2e078ce6758da9f1dc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2021-05-03T17:55:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a1fda8e9e170497cb2b3a75ce3206791c7cd4f289d7624a034301a506a9d1579"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2105.01056",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}